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kristin fisher brings us the story. >> usually we're more concerned about the bicyclists. >> reporter: not this morning. joggers on the capital crescent trail are far more concerned about what happened here around 7:00 sunday night. a 21-year-old attacked and sexually assaulted on her evening jog. >> wow, i'm stunned actually. i always felt very secure. there are lots of cyclists. i just never had given it any thought. >> it's really scary. i drive on this trail about three, -- jog on this trail about three, four times a week. never felt unsafe. this makes me second-guess. >> reporter: this woman stopped just for a few seconds to allow some deer to cross the trail right about here but those few seconds is all it took for somebody to come up from behind, hit her on the head, knocking her unconshz. he dragged -- unconscious. he dragged herred into w50ds. >> she -- into the woods. >> she was able to get back on the trail. thankfully a 40-year-old male jogger was passing by. >> reporter: the victim is still in the hospital recovering from serious head trauma. but she was able to give a de
kristin fisher brings us the story. >> usually we're more concerned about the bicyclists. >> reporter: not this morning. joggers on the capital crescent trail are far more concerned about what happened here around 7:00 sunday night. a 21-year-old attacked and sexually assaulted on her evening jog. >> wow, i'm stunned actually. i always felt very secure. there are lots of cyclists. i just never had given it any thought. >> it's really scary. i drive on this trail about...
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kristin fisher is right there in nats park with more on today's game. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. just simply a fact that we're having this post-game -- post- season game here at nats park, such a huge deal when you think about it. the last time this city had a post-season baseball game was back in 1933. prohibition had just ended. there was no such thing as sz. and the average -- as social security and the average cost of a home just $6,000. it's pretty amazing. joining me now chief operating officer of the washington nationals andy feffer. when you look back at how long this has been, 79 years. is it hard to believe that you're here today? >> it's amazing. i look out on the field and sow the post-season logos. the franchise is only 7 years old. who thought at the beginning of the year we would be talking post-season baseball for the first time. >> reporter: everywhere you look you see the hash tag post- season natitude. talk about how the fans and the media have embraced this young team and it's taken off. >> october natitude starts here.
kristin fisher is right there in nats park with more on today's game. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. just simply a fact that we're having this post-game -- post- season game here at nats park, such a huge deal when you think about it. the last time this city had a post-season baseball game was back in 1933. prohibition had just ended. there was no such thing as sz. and the average -- as social security and the average cost of a home just $6,000. it's pretty amazing. joining me...
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kristin fisher live in the wusa9 satellite center. good morning, kristin. >> reporter: good morning. we still don't know exactly what happened. that's expected to come out a little later today, but whatever happened to these two men doesn't matter much to family and friends. they say all that they care about is that they're coming home safe and sound. now, the families of these two virginia veterinarians reported them missing on friday after they failed to catch their flights home. rescue teams spent the next three days searching for them in terrible weather, high winds, limited visibility, lots of snow. they were found around 4:30 yesterday afternoon in the back country of glacier national park. here's glacier national park spokeswoman denise. >> it's just a great feeling to know they're out of the back country, that they're safe and with their families. >> reporter: here they are. well, actually that is not the picture i was referring to but they were -- there it is. there it is. there they are. they are you can see healthy, no inju
kristin fisher live in the wusa9 satellite center. good morning, kristin. >> reporter: good morning. we still don't know exactly what happened. that's expected to come out a little later today, but whatever happened to these two men doesn't matter much to family and friends. they say all that they care about is that they're coming home safe and sound. now, the families of these two virginia veterinarians reported them missing on friday after they failed to catch their flights home. rescue...
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kristin fisher sat down with his parents at their home this morning. >> it was not until after football practice that they became concerned. >> reporter: that was monday evening. and mike glenn has been searching for his son ever since. 17-year-old brian glenn, a senior ated woodson high school -- at woodson high school. >> it's difficult, it is really tough. we don't have enough leads to develop the opinion on the likely outcome here. >> reporter: he was last seen here at woodson high school around 7:15 on monday morning. his car found less than 24 hours later at a park just two miles away. and inside his car, police found their next big clue, a receipt from a dunkin' donuts just up the road. >> as a parent i would like to think okay, i've got a 17-year- old son who has experimented something that went awry and he is trying to figure out how to deal with the shame and come home. i would like to think that's the case. i'm praying that's the case. >> reporter: he is also praying that surveillance footage from the dunkin' donuts will show whether or not brian was alone. now police in fair
kristin fisher sat down with his parents at their home this morning. >> it was not until after football practice that they became concerned. >> reporter: that was monday evening. and mike glenn has been searching for his son ever since. 17-year-old brian glenn, a senior ated woodson high school -- at woodson high school. >> it's difficult, it is really tough. we don't have enough leads to develop the opinion on the likely outcome here. >> reporter: he was last seen here...
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at nats fish i'm kristin fisher -- nats park i'm kristin fisher, 9 news now. >> reporter: metro has decided to postpone track work before the game tonight just to make sure everybody gets home and back. that track work had been scheduled for 10 p.m. with single tracking on multiple lines. instead it will not get going until the crowds have all dissipated and gone home. who knows? if it goes to extra innings, how late that might be and if it's late, it's going to be bitterly cold, right, top? >> it is, derek, but you are really cold, 30 below really? >> reporter: that was just exaggeration for effect. >> i see. if you do go to the game, either the nats game or high school football, here's the forecast. i would recommend gloves. i know that sounds crazy, but i'd recommend gloves and also a hat. plan for the 40s and 50s tonight if you're going out. winds will slowly diminish, but we're still looking otter 40s to low 50s, clear, no rain and winds 10 to 15 throughout the game. our coldest night so far. we have freeze warnings for montgomery county and loudoun county north and west which includes
at nats fish i'm kristin fisher -- nats park i'm kristin fisher, 9 news now. >> reporter: metro has decided to postpone track work before the game tonight just to make sure everybody gets home and back. that track work had been scheduled for 10 p.m. with single tracking on multiple lines. instead it will not get going until the crowds have all dissipated and gone home. who knows? if it goes to extra innings, how late that might be and if it's late, it's going to be bitterly cold, right,...
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at national zoo i'm kristin fisher, 9 news now. >> thank you. the current agreement with china lasts through december 5th, 2015, and it stipulates the zoo will conduct research in the areas of breeding and panda cub behavior. >>> still ahead unimaginable tragedy strikes a maryland family when fire breaks out overnight in their home. >> coldest air of the season rolls into the metro area tomorrow. we'll let you know where the freeze watches are and look ahead to the weekend. >> the big vice presidential debate is tonight and knees guys are the reigning national champion debate -- these guys are the reigning national champion debaters. they will weigh in on what the candidates need to do to win voters. i'm peggy fox with this story coming up. >>> welcome back to 9new i'm anita brikman live in the usa today newsroom where we'll be covering tonight's one and only vice presidential debate. it gets underway in a few hours. so what does each of these pretty fiery candidates have to do to sway voters their way? our peggy fox asked the reigning national
at national zoo i'm kristin fisher, 9 news now. >> thank you. the current agreement with china lasts through december 5th, 2015, and it stipulates the zoo will conduct research in the areas of breeding and panda cub behavior. >>> still ahead unimaginable tragedy strikes a maryland family when fire breaks out overnight in their home. >> coldest air of the season rolls into the metro area tomorrow. we'll let you know where the freeze watches are and look ahead to the weekend....
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in fairfax coty, kristin fisher, 9news now. >>> when we come back, i'm going to be one on one with maryland's lieutenant governor anthony brown. we're going to talk about the state of emergency that is already in place for maryland. >>> we told you that officials in the metropolitan area are getting ready for hurricane sandy. in fact, virginia and maryland have already issued a state of emergency. i'm delighted to have the lieutenant governor of maryland here with me anthony brown to talk exactly what does this mean. >> thanks for having me on. yes, the governor did declare a state of emergency and basically by declaring a state of emergency, it positions us well with the federal government to the extent that if we need to request assistance from the federal government, whether the assistance is in the aftermath or the recovery but it's important to declare it now. more importantly as you're covering this incident, to let marylanders and virginians know that a severe weather is on the way to the area. >> what should residents do? >> the first thing they should do is not only looking at your w
in fairfax coty, kristin fisher, 9news now. >>> when we come back, i'm going to be one on one with maryland's lieutenant governor anthony brown. we're going to talk about the state of emergency that is already in place for maryland. >>> we told you that officials in the metropolitan area are getting ready for hurricane sandy. in fact, virginia and maryland have already issued a state of emergency. i'm delighted to have the lieutenant governor of maryland here with me anthony...
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kristin fisher hopefully is there with conditions in rehoboth beach. kristin, can you hear me? there she is. chris continue, you're up. >> reporter: i -- kristin, you're up. >> reporter: i hear you. are you talking to me? >> we are. >> reporter: the last time you saw me we were over on the bay side. right now we're on the boardwalk of rehoboth beach. you can see all of the businesses, candy kitchen, grotto piz disarks all the ie -- pizza, all the icons boarded up. there is nobody out on these streets. let's look at the surf. check out the waves coming in. huge waves, 14, 15 feet, getting higher as sandy comes closer and closer. the center of the storm still about 300 miles away from us. expected to make landfall in several hours just north of us on the southern new jersey coast. what we're hearing this morning is that -- the good news, i'll start with that. not a ton of power outages. just under 2,000 overnight. that's the good news. the bad news, lots of road closures, lots of flooding. route 1 into dewey beach, bethany beach totally closed. wiped out. here's actually some pre
kristin fisher hopefully is there with conditions in rehoboth beach. kristin, can you hear me? there she is. chris continue, you're up. >> reporter: i -- kristin, you're up. >> reporter: i hear you. are you talking to me? >> we are. >> reporter: the last time you saw me we were over on the bay side. right now we're on the boardwalk of rehoboth beach. you can see all of the businesses, candy kitchen, grotto piz disarks all the ie -- pizza, all the icons boarded up. there...
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fisher and all our other colleagues out by the beach talk about the significance and the power of that storm and how quickly it can take you, you could see by that video it illustrates that point. >> feet and feet above the other waves. >>> let's talk about power outages which have been going up and up. russ ptacek is checking those us for us with the different utilities. >> just since i last spoke to you, 40,000 more outages. on twitter you'll see these numbers that came out about five minutes ago, 138,000 now without power. bge reporting 66,000, pepco 20,000, dominion -- this is the biggest change -- 43,000 dominion customers without power, novak 1,649, smeco 4,326 and rappahannock about 3,000. let's look at dominion. that is the biggest change. those numbers may have doubled since we last spoke. here is one, this big interesting at the end of fairfax you see the x. x marks the spot. that big red spot means more than 2,500 customers in that zip code are without power. then these other areas that are dots, those indicate outages, also, but that x marking the spot would be the single l
fisher and all our other colleagues out by the beach talk about the significance and the power of that storm and how quickly it can take you, you could see by that video it illustrates that point. >> feet and feet above the other waves. >>> let's talk about power outages which have been going up and up. russ ptacek is checking those us for us with the different utilities. >> just since i last spoke to you, 40,000 more outages. on twitter you'll see these numbers that came...
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. >> kristin fisher is live with more on the current conditions. for you it's just going downhill so far. >> reporter: and going downhill very quickly. a level two travel advisory has just been issued for rehoboth beach, dewey beach, all of the beaches along this part of the delaware coast. what that means is that nobody except for essential personnel are allowed to be driving on these roadways. for the most part it seems that so far people are taking that advisory to heart. i want to show you why this travel advisory has been implemented so early into this hurricane. take a look at this video that our photographer shot about two hours ago on the north side of rehoboth beach, the bay side. check out how much water he is driving through. folks, you still have about 36 hours to go, 36 more hours of solid rain, rising tides, heavier winds. it is just going to get so much worse. a little bit earlier before the travel advisory was implemented, we saw some folks trying to take some pictures, even get out into the surf as bryce harper would say. there pro
. >> kristin fisher is live with more on the current conditions. for you it's just going downhill so far. >> reporter: and going downhill very quickly. a level two travel advisory has just been issued for rehoboth beach, dewey beach, all of the beaches along this part of the delaware coast. what that means is that nobody except for essential personnel are allowed to be driving on these roadways. for the most part it seems that so far people are taking that advisory to heart. i want...
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kristin fisher was there and joins us live with more on that report. >> reporter: sad as it is, this is something that's relative common among newborn panda cubs. think of it like this. the liver needs oxygen but when you have underdeveloped lungs, it mes that the liver can't get enough of that oxygen which leads to liver failure and that's what happened here. here is the zoo's chief veterinarian to explain in a bit more detail. >> our current thinking is that since the lungs were not fully developed, they did not bring in as much oxygen and not much oxygen got to the liver which killed the liver cells and out matily caused the death of the cub. >> reporter: dr. suzan murray headlined the highly anticipated announcement two weeks after the six-day old pab today cub -- panda cub was found dead. at the same time mama panda was sitting behind us eating treats. it's good sign she's moving on but her appetite is only about 80% of what she normally eats. her vet says her late is still about 20 pounds underweight. >> she's down on her bamboo consumption but she's doing great. >> reporter: h
kristin fisher was there and joins us live with more on that report. >> reporter: sad as it is, this is something that's relative common among newborn panda cubs. think of it like this. the liver needs oxygen but when you have underdeveloped lungs, it mes that the liver can't get enough of that oxygen which leads to liver failure and that's what happened here. here is the zoo's chief veterinarian to explain in a bit more detail. >> our current thinking is that since the lungs were...
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. >> kristin fisher is live along rehoboth beach, delaware to look at the conditions there so far how are we doing, kristin. >> reporter: doing pretty well. good morning to you all from the atlantic sands hotel on rehoboth beach. we started to feel the begins of a hurricane here i'd say maybe 12 hours ago. it increased throughout the night. now we're really starting to feel it. but the amazing thing here is we're going to feel these kinds of winds, see this weather and it's going to get so much worse and it's going to continue for 36 more hours. this hurricane is still 350 miles off shore, the center of it at least. as you stand here, we see these conditions that have been going on for so long. it's mind boggling to think that we're only at the very beginning of n. i know it's really dark out here, folks, tough to see, but the surf has been kicking up hard all night long. we've got about 14-foot waves right now. they have been pounding. my hotel room is right on the beach. they've been loud all night long. wind gusts increasing throughout the night. the hotel is very secure. this hote
. >> kristin fisher is live along rehoboth beach, delaware to look at the conditions there so far how are we doing, kristin. >> reporter: doing pretty well. good morning to you all from the atlantic sands hotel on rehoboth beach. we started to feel the begins of a hurricane here i'd say maybe 12 hours ago. it increased throughout the night. now we're really starting to feel it. but the amazing thing here is we're going to feel these kinds of winds, see this weather and it's going to...
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. >> kristin fisher joins us. >> reporter: hey guys. we just got our latest update from the suspect county emergency operations center. i want to read you a direct quote from what their director just said. he said the next 24 hours are the most critical as the height of the storm comes ashore with potentially devastating effects not seen here in half a century. they're expecting record inland and coastal flooding. but we've already got some flooding on the bay side of rehoboth beach. we're already seeing some scattered outages. but it is only going to get worse which is really hard to believe when you take a look at some of the waves we're seeing out here. let me show you some of the erosion we're seeing already. the boardwalk is looking good. but down here, this type of erosion -- want to make sure some waves aren't coming. this type of erosion up and down rehoboth beach's boardwalk, it's everywhere. what's happening as these waves get bigger and bigger and closer to shore, they're coming in. they're coming through these walkways down
. >> kristin fisher joins us. >> reporter: hey guys. we just got our latest update from the suspect county emergency operations center. i want to read you a direct quote from what their director just said. he said the next 24 hours are the most critical as the height of the storm comes ashore with potentially devastating effects not seen here in half a century. they're expecting record inland and coastal flooding. but we've already got some flooding on the bay side of rehoboth...
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you saw kristin fisher. she's in a little bit of a lull she said but there's going to be more bands of rain developing as this thing gets closer and closer to the coast. one of the heaviest bands is coming right across the chesapeake, right across d.c. and points to the east. here's the story on sandy. 8:00 advisory winds 85 gusting to 105. the motion north, north west at 20. it has started to take that left turn toward the coast. winds are stirl going to get -- still going to get a little stronger, maybe 90 winds at 2:00. we'll probably maintain that. it could possibly strengthen before making landfall just south of atlantic city at about maybe 10:00, 11:00 tonight. hurricane force winds will precede this by several hours along coastal areas. tropical storm force winds are likely to be here later starting this afternoon from east to west. by 2:00 tomorrow, how long is the storm going to last? still 60 mile an hour winds around the center near gettysburg, harrisburg, somewhere in that vicinity. that's still
you saw kristin fisher. she's in a little bit of a lull she said but there's going to be more bands of rain developing as this thing gets closer and closer to the coast. one of the heaviest bands is coming right across the chesapeake, right across d.c. and points to the east. here's the story on sandy. 8:00 advisory winds 85 gusting to 105. the motion north, north west at 20. it has started to take that left turn toward the coast. winds are stirl going to get -- still going to get a little...